On Sunday 20 October 2002 21:03, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > I still doubt the value of the "IT" since it suggests > this is Italian Sardinian as opposed to some other > existent Sardinian from some other country. Much the > same as I believe "la-IT" is wrong for Latin.
All our language codes (except Lojban) have a country code, even if the language is spoken in only one country. So I think sc-IT is correct. But then there are the dialects. As to la-IT, when Latin was a living language, there was no country called Italy - there were Latium, Etruria, Umbria, etc., and later the Roman Empire. phma
